vi CONTENTS. 



Effect of Ghosts on Horses. The Ghost Story precisely as it oc 

 curred. Are Ghosts liable to Damages when they frighten Horses 

 into fits of running away ? Equine Eccentricities. Practical Play 

 fulness .....Page 61 



CHAPTER IV. 



THE COUNTRY, AND HOW TO GET THERE. 



Easy Accessibility of Flushing. An improving Railroad. Educa 

 tion by Steam. True Principles of Travel 77 



CHAPTER V. 



A WELL. 



A Well, considered classically and otherwise. A Cat in search of 

 the Truth. A Catastrophe. Pumps and Vanities of Life. A 

 poor Sucker. Hydraulic Pressure 86 



CHAPTER VI. 



A KITCHEN GARDEN. 



Advantages thereof. Things to have. You wish you may get them. 

 Ornamental as opposed to practical Views. A dissolving View. 

 Bad Beginnings do not always make a good Ending. Daniel 

 O Rourke s as a grazing Crop. The new-mown Hay. Its Flavor 

 and Flower. Remarkable Results of Gardening for Profit 97 



CHAPTER VII. 



THE FLOWER GARDEN. 



Architectural Skill set at defiance by practical Difficulties. Result 

 of too much Greenness . A Disappointment Ill 



CHAPTER VIII. 



POULTRY. 



Strange Attack of Somnolency. Dogs and Peppers as awakeners. 

 The right Thing in the wrong Place. A Hen lays herself out. 

 Twenty pair of Chickens raise the Hair of one Mink 124 



CHAPTER IX. 



FALL WORK. 



A Fortune in Strawberries. How to get it out. Debility developed. 

 Science to the Rescue. The wonderful Effects of a Liquid Fer- 



